Cleeves, Ann
1954 -

The British crime writer Ann Cleeves grew up in Herefordshire and North Devon, England. Her father was a teacher. After...

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Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...

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Leblanc, Maurice
1864 - 1941

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French author born in Rouen, Normandy. His father was a shipowner. Leblanc did well at ...

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Turèll, Dan
1946 - 1993

Danish novelist and poet who was something as unusual as a well-respected and genuinely popular cultural figure. He was...

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